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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

Hermann Hesse

I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.
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Blood Myself Teaching
There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality and never allow the world within to assert itself.
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Life People Reality World Yoga
Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.
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Art Grace World
The river is everywhere.
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One Liner River
The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God’s name is Abraxas.
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Born Destroy Fight God Philosophy World
Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
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Happiness Object Talent
You must find your dream, then the way becomes easy.
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Dream Easy Inspirational Way
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
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Deep Hate Ourselves Philosophy Spiritual
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
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Happiness Love Men
Your soul is the whole world.
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One Liner Soul World
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.
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Being Single Literature Soul
My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.
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Life Reality
All life was a breath exhaled by God. All dying was a breath inhaled by God.
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Death Life Suffering
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
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Deep Face Truth
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
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Inspirational Life Teaching Wisdom
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
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Comfortable Death Fire Liberty

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.

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